The Vision of Tundale
- Date of account
- 1149
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany; written in Latin by an Irish monk named Marcus
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Vision of Tundale recounts an otherworld journey experienced by the sinful knight Tundale and translated or written in Regensburg by the monk Marcus in 1149. It describes punishments, demons, heavenly stages, and the soul’s moral transformation, becoming one of the most widely circulated medieval visionary texts. The lead supports comparison with near-death narratives, pilgrimage imagery, and the social uses of visionary testimony. It is a didactic literary composition whose manuscript versions and translations vary. This is an AI-recalled lead, not evidence of an objectively visited afterlife.
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